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SULKY PLANUNG PLOW.

Zai/(9815952 Patented Nov. 29, .1881.

Nrrnn STATES PATENT Frise.

JOSEPH P. BLACK AND THOMAS PATES, OF ALTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO THE HAPGOOD PLOW COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SU LKY PLANTING-PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,048, dated November 29, 1881,

Application tiled July l1, 1881.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, J osnrn P. BLACK and THOMAS PA'IES, of Alton, in the county of Madison and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sulky Planting-Plows, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to improvements in 1o planting-plows.

Our invention consists in the new and improved construction of the shovel drag-bar d, and in the yoke h, used in attaching the covering-shovels, connecting them and the drilltooth stock c to the plow, and in the combination, in a planting-plow, of the dropping and planting attachments7 arranged as hereinafter shown.

Figure l gives a vertical section view of a 2o planting-plowhavingourimprovementsshown, also showing the combination ol' the dropping and planting devices with the bent beam A and plow W. Fig. 2 gives a top view ot the same as Fig. l, having the beam A and dropping device B removed, showing how our improved shovel drag-bar d and yoke h are attached. Fig. 3 is a view, in perspective, of

the shovel e and drag-bar d, enlarged. Fig. 4

is aview showing how the yoke h is constructed.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several views.

d is our improved drag-bar, consisting of a flat bar of iron bent I I shape, and with its legs bent down, supporting the shovels e, and with two perforations, u n, in its closed end,

as shown in Fig. 3.

his the yoke, consisting of a bar of iron bent LJ shape, with screw-nuts on both of its legs. The closed end is made narrow to tit the up- `4o right part of center bar, c, and the `body is made wider to embrace the sides of the drillstock c, as will be understood by inspecting Fig. 2.

In operation the yoke h is placed in position,

4 5 as shown in Fig. 2, with its closed end in front of the bar c and its sides embracing the stock c, and with its legs extending through the per- (No model.)

forations n n, and with the screw-nuts tightened against the drag-bar d, rigidly securing the stock c and drag-bar d to the bar a, and 5o the bar a united to,the beam A with bolts or rivets, as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 1 is shown our improved construction and arrangement, in a planting-plow, of the plow W, supporting a bent beam, A, which .beam supports and has thereto attached the dropping attachment B, the planting attachments, drill stock or tooth c, and the coveringblade drag-bar d, which arrangement we have so made to adapt the planting-plow for use on the ordinary plow-sulky, making a sulky planting-plow.V

Heretofore in sulky planting-plows the dropping and planting' devices have been attached to the sulky-frame or other parts than to the bent plow-beam, and liable to become disarranged and work imperfectly 5 and it is to overcome the objections and imperfect working of such arrangements that we have improved the arrangement, adapting theparts and com- 7o bining them with the bent plow-beam A, as herein shown.

W is a listing-plow, and A is the bent plowbeam. B is the dropping-box, attached to the beam A, and b is a pipe, through which corn may drop from the dropping-box to the planting drill-stock. The dropping-box B is attached to the bent plow-beam A by means ot' a clasp embracing the said beam and adjustable on the said beam, as will be understood by reference to the drawings.

We do not claim, broadly, cons'ructingdragbars of a single bar.

Having thus described and set forth our invention, we claim- 1. In a planting-plow, the drag-bard, formed of a single piece, bent L l shape, and shovels e, attached to the legs of the drag-bar, and the closed end of the drag-bar having the two perforations n n, in combination with the yoke h, consisting ofthe I I -shape bar having screwnuts on both its legs, drill-tooth c, and center bar, a, the yoke h embracing the center bar, a, and tooth c, and supporting the drag-bar d in position on the rear `side of the tooth, as taohed directly to the beam A by a clasp enlshown. bracing the beam and adjustable thereon, as lo 2. In a planting-plow, the bent plow-beam shown, and for the purpose specified. A, the listing-plow W, supporting said beam, JOSEPH P. BLACK. 5 the drill-tooth c, and the drag-bar d, both of THOMAS PATES.

the latter connected to the beam A, substan- Vitnesses tially as shown, in combination with the drop- F. H. FERGUSON, ping-box B and pipe b, the box B being at- GEO. A. BLACK. 

